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Friday, April 21, 1972
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Unite for Peace
No more, for God's sake, no more!
Two million Vietnamese are dead,
another 10 million are homeless,
military spending has gone from $42
billion in fiscal 1960 to an estimated
$76.5 billion for fiscal 1973. And as of
the 25th of March, 45,659 Americans
had died in action in Vietnam,
302,787 had been wounded.
As long ago as Jan. 31, 1971, a Gallup poll showed that 73 per cent of the American people wanted all U.S. troops brought home from Indochina by the end of that year. Now, nearly 15 months later, 70,000 American troops remain. And despite the decrease in ground troops (the total at one time was more than a half million) the number of B52s in the area is increasing, and more than half the Pacific fleet is now sailing in Indochinese waters.
What has this vast expenditure of
dollars and dollars and millions of lives acquired?
Well, the enemy now controls, in addition to North Vietnam, half of Laos and two-thirds of Cambodia. The South Vietnamese army, which at the expense of the United States has been trained and equipped to the extent that it is now second only to Communist China's among Asian armies, cannot repell the current North Vietnamese offensive, even with massive U.S. air and sea support.
On the economic front, we've experienced years of turbulence resulting in 25 per cent idle plant and 10 per cent unemployed and 5 to 6 per cent inflation.
It would be ludicrous to say it has been worth it. But there are those in our government that must believe it has been, for under their direction it continues. The fact that American ground troops have been phased out of the action doesn't mean that the war is over.
In fact, the death and destruction through bombing has been escalated American bombers and ships are shelling, for the first time since World War II. Since Nixon took charge of the war, more bombs have been dropped in
Southeast Asia than in the first four years preceding the Nixon administration—the era of heaviest fighting.
This new wave of bombing can only be explained in terms of political opportunism on the part of the President. He must think the failure of Vietnamization will lessen his chances for re-election, but at the same time he knows he must get the war ended, withdraw then brobbs, withdraw them again, in mad effort to placate all shades of political opinion.
But the blood is not on his hands alone. Congress has supported him and three other presidents, in this senseless, immoral war. Nor have the American people done all they can to stop the blood letting.
We can all share the blame for what is past. Some are more guilty than others. But let us all now make it clear that we will not tolerate more killing in the future, that the morality of the American people can be compromised while the politicians try to fix the blame on one another.
Tomorrow, all over the nation Americans will stand up and in united voice demand that it must stop.
Here in Lawrence our chance will come during the Kansas relays. If the chancellor approves their plan, between 11 and 12 demonstrators will march into the stadium and present a 15-minute speech. Those seated in the stands will be asked to stand and join hands as symbol of united opposition to the continuation of the war.
If tomorrow, millions of Americans do stand and pledge themselves to peace, and sustain that pledge with action, the politicians will see, and the killing will stop.
If not, more blood will flow, more will die. And what little dignity and integrity American has left will also at the hands of her people.
-Mike Moffet Associate Editor
In most emergency cases speed is the critical factor, and Marcare's crew is trained to react quickly.
To most people, sirens mean excitement or disaster, but to Larry Marcium and the men in his company they mean more life—or death.
The majority of the emergency calls are for persons who have suffered from hip fractures and heart attacks. Harris said.
"in the last few weeks we averaged several calls daily—reasonably simultaneously," said Scott Harris, a Lawrence freshman with the ambulance service, which is located at 19th and Mass.
Marceau's Citizens Ambulance Service has sped to call far away in response to backpacks. The ambulance canvasses five area counties.
BY LAW, ambulance or ophthalmic nurse may be on course to puncture the skin, administer drugs, or perform the sometimes necessary operations like a knee surgery.
Harris said he thought many lives could be saved in the ambulance a well-trained officer can on request power to do what was necessary. Harris said he saw a change for ambulance service and care in the future by giving attendants other drugs and intravenous aids.
BROSE SAID the most dramatic change for emergency care will come in the form of a team of medical personnel the ambulance and the hospital. Brose has set the example for better communication between ambulance and doctor by the impromptu calls he the Super Ambulance.
At least one local expert agrees with Harris, Dr. Richard Brose, director of Emergency Care Training at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said that he not favor the change to the ability to administer drugs but said that it was necessary.
"I think that it will have to come as a controlled expansion of the attendants' role. Certainly we need to make sure we give heavy drugs," Brose said.
Ambulance Crews See Troubles
The 'Super Ambulance,' the 'Super Ambulance' Center, looks like a large bread truck and contains some sophisticated equipment like an ambulance.
Rather than the attendants having to follow "standing instructions" they can speak directly to a physician over two-way radio.
The physician could diagnose the symptoms and advise the attendants as to what they should do.
THIS TYPE of radio communication would be necessary because ambulances which have to cover a large area, as Marsum's must, because the time in theENCEance to the hospital is most crucial.
"I don't see why properly rained attendants shouldn't administer drugs, military drugs, doing it for someone," Brice said.
It has been estimated b, several professional publications c, that attack victims could have been en route to the hospital if only ambulance attendants would be present to perform what was necessary.
Brose said he thought the killer was a man, who would soon endorse a policy which would expand the role of the attendant to a larger, more aggressive man.
HARRI CITED two more problems which the ambulance drivers must face every day. One was the problem of traffic.
"Cars just don't cover up over it," he said, conditioning radios, and the new soundproofing in cars just doesn't help. People hear our cars." Harris.
The second problem Harry noted was the widespread criticism, even from doctors, that medical professionals were enough in the emergency field.
Lawrence does not have any doctors specializing in emergency care. Lawrence can be on call for doctor on call, one registered nurse, and one orderly on duty at all times. This is the minimum number of emergency employees required to keep their accredited
ACCORDING TO Dr. David R. Boyd, chief of the division of emergency medical services and a professor of the Department of Public Health, most emergency departments across the country have become overwhelmed by the emergency hospital. The emergency ward is the most neglected, understaffed, under-equipped, and under-funded in the hospital, Bayd said.
"In the case of an extreme emergency we never go to Watkins—they don't even have a breathing machine," said Harris.
Upon hearing that Watkins was not equipped to handle some injuries, Brosse said. "I'm afraid the case with quite a few hospitals."
ACCIDENTAL INJURY is the
Policeman Majors in Journalism
By JERRY M. VOKRACKA
It is not unusual for a college student to work and to attend classes. But it is unusual when a law enforcement officer. The combination of the two is part of the daily routine of Nichols, Nicholas, Kansas City, Ky. Law enforcement. Lawrence Police Department Nichols said that he had been a Lawrence police officer since last August and a Kane County, Kansas, police officer since January. "I CAME on the force about the middle of August last year," said
"I asked in December if I could go to school, and they immediately started things turning so I could go. I had to get per- sonnancy. I got on and then arrange to get on one school Lawrence Education Department
was a lot more cooperative than some departments I have heard about."
Kansas Photo by JIM EATON
Vern Nichols
Nichols said he was majoring in journalism background in the journalism field when he was in the Army and when he worked in Kansas
Nichols, who is 24 years-old, said that he had been an auxiliary policeman in Kansas City prior to joining the Lawrence force.
Nichols said that, when he got out of the service in 1960, he had planned on staying home and playing. But his operas killed him. He went to work as a photographer for the Kansas City Kansan but quit after he learned they had sent him to school, he said.
"In the military, I was in public information operations," he said. The Army's armed forces Radio and Television network. I disjoined some tapes that were shown during the States during the holidays.
"I also edited an overseas newspaper and took a lot of public relations pictures of arades," he said.
Nichols said that being a policeman in Kansas City and going around town from being a policeman in Lawrence and going to school. He said he would be around school in Kansas City but now he has to make school fit.
1 'ENROLLED at Dontley
to get a job as a stringer for WDAF-
TV on weekends and one day a
week, worked the police
department.
"I've known some people who I have been fairly friendly with, the two guys in coffee." Nichols said. "They don't count. I'm a police officer who's been friendly."
But those are only a few of the problems Nichols has exacerbated. He said that as soon as some students discovered he was a police officer, they would be cautious when they talked with him.
"One day I stopped a guy for drag racing and gave him a knee on his hip, and he whispered something to a guy I was talking with. I did not hear what he said, and I didn't ask about the expression on his face what he was.
"The guy had been pretty free in talking and mentioned a lot of things, a lot of things! When he came back, the conversation
promptly stopped and he said he had to go.
"I asked him what was wrong, and he said, 'Well, the guy just told me you were a cop.' He told me, 'Yeah,' said he, 'yeah,' said he, 'well, you kind of make me feel uneasy.'
"SOME ARE WORSE than that. They won't have anything to do with me. They just completely cut me off."
"I CAN FORESEE getting too wrapped up and becoming too tired to enjoy anything else except for walking down the street when you are off duty and seeing some people you don't know. You can't live like that. But if property when I'm off duty, it is going to be the same as if I am on
Nichols said that when he attended classes he tried not to be a policeman but found it difficult
"I don't try to press it. If you wear one in culture, and the police depend on you, be one culture, you miss out on what is going on outside and what you're doing. We're acting. I don't want to get to a bag or so bag, or put up I forgot to wear."
"You're a policeman 24 hours a day, whether you like it or not," Nichols said. "If you don't like it, then you shouldn't get into it."
duty. But you don't go out of your way to run after cars."
Being a black police officer and student, Nichols is in a position to see how the black resident is different from the black student.
"The basic black person in Lawrence, who is a resident, is working and trying to support her family," said Sue. "The average black student's parents send him to work or help with his marriage or he works in the summer.
"He isn't occupied with work every day. Through education—especially through learning how to think, where to find information and how to organize your thoughts—you expose yourself to different facts."
"I think that black college students are more apt to be heard because of the terms they use and the references they make. I wonder who doesn't have as much to pull from as far as terms. The basic difference is that the black in college will be in influential jobs somewhere while the black downtown isn't going to go much
"EXPANDING ON these philosophical principles you learn in school, you see the short lesson of your race you as a person.
school, has a position, and he can do something about some things he doesn't like. He will soon be in a position to do something. I don't mean by radical ways, but the other way is that things should be changed."
Nichols said his immediate plans were to finish school and to have a job that would encompass enforcement and journalism.
Ambulance Drivers Always on Alert
Larry Mcurman is owner of Citizen's Ambulance Service.
"I foresee the day when police departments are going to have an expanded public relations force. Nichols said.
"THE BLACK, WHILE in
Kansan Staff Photo
number one cause of death in the 1- to 37-year age group, according to the March 6 issue of Modern Medicine. There is only a handful of schools offering specialized training in emergency care.
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
submitted its proposal to set up a residency program and eventual speciality in emergentology to the University of Amlan (AMA). The proposal was rejected on the basis that there are too many specialties already covered, that emergency care medicine is given to a specialist, and medicine to be a specialist.
The proposal has been resubmitted.
If the ACEP proposal is recognized by the AMA, emergency medicine will its way to becoming a respectable specialty where doctors could be trained for the needs of emergency medicine.
Lt. Gov. Candidate Says Economic Role Important
By JIM KENDELL
Kevin S.M. Writen
Sen David Owen, R-Overland Park, a candidate for the Republican nomination for senator said Tuesday night that if elected he intended to work hard on economic development in
Owen said, "I see the job as one of a real leadership role in expanding the economic base of the state."
The 33-year-old senator explained that as lieutenant governor he would be chairman of the Kansas Economic Development Commission, chairman of the Interstate Commission and presiding officer of the Kansas Senate.
OWEN SAID his business background would help him work for economic development. Before he was elected to the senate in 1968, Owen was vice-president of Overland Park State Bank.
Owen has served on the Overland Park Industrial Development Commission and is a commissioner in the United States Government Agency.
He is presently executive vice president and partner in a real estate firm, as well as a dreector of another bank.
Owen said he looked forward to an increasing need for revenue in the next two years. There should be an even balance between
property, sales and income taxes he said.
Owen said he would prefer raising more revenue by increasing the gross state product and increasing tax rates.
Owen the funding for higher education this year "was better than before, but it still not adequate." He had feared many good teachers if the legislation did not voted for salary increases.
Owen said he was concerned about the stepped-up bombing in Vietnam.
"UNLESS THE PRESIDENT takes rather immediate steps to speed up the withdrawal of troops and ends the bombing, it's going to create problems. 'Owens said. Owens said. Owens said. The compulsions as senator were the sponsorship of bills creating additional facilities for juvenile offenders in Kansas and accelerating state highway con
Owen said three additional stages for juvenile offenders. The only existing facility, the Boy's Industrial School in Hutchinson,
Transforming roads like highways 10 and 69 into four-lane roads is a challenge according to Owen. Construction costs are rising 12 per cent a year, while revenue from the road construction sector is only per cent, Owen said. So it's ad's
OWEN HAS PUSHED for more highway construction for three reasons—safety, economic and environmental in the construction industry.
vantageous to build roads now, he said.
Owen said that he was abolutely opposed to the presidential commission on Marijuana and the Presidential Commission on Marijuana released its report on Friday.
Although he hadn't studied the report, Owen said there was now room for consideration of the issue.
OWEN VOTED for the equal rights amendment to the constitution and said it was all right. He also noted that he involved in business and politics.
"I don't think there should be any discrimination for reasons of sex for job opportunities," he said.
Owen voted for the retention of a current Kansas abortion law which passed last Senate session. He said he wanted the present law to remain
Owen voted for restoration of cuts in welfare payments made by the previous legislative session. He does not favor certain categories of welfare, such as aid to dependent children.
"I AM in favor of 100 per cent verification of those who go on the welfare rolls, so that we can ensure confidence in welfare," he said.
By verification, Owen said, he means going to each welfare recipient and verifying the information that son had given to get on welfare.
Owen was in Lawrence to set up a student campaign organization and to find out what issues were concerned about.
KU to Offer Soviet Culture Degree
By MARCIA CLIFTON Kansan Staff Writer
The University of Kansas is among a handful of universities in the United States which can boast of a rare assortment of scholars, including those of Russian culture, according to Gerald Mikkelsen, assistant
KU Prof Working on Project For NASA Skylab Program
By KATHY ELLIS
Kansan Staff Writer
Richard K. Moore, director of the Remote Sensing Laboratory at the Space Technology Institute, has federal grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to put a Skylab in earth orbit.
The University of Kansas has been working on the Earth Resources Experiment Package (ERP) since 2011. Moore and his colleagues have helped NASA supervise the building of a microwave instrument and hope to be responsible for analyzing the data.
Moore said the biggest application of the microwave experiment was to prove ideas about light and wind winds on the world's oceans.
"We hope it will prove once and for all that you can use a system
IF THE EXPERIMENT is successful, the microwave would put on an unmanned spacecraft and weather satellite. Because the satellite would orbit observations many point in the man's area that were received, and it would be possible to forecast the weather a few days in advance. Captains will know the best areas to travel.
like this as an anemometer, Moore said.
the objectives of the Skylab ais to perform scientific investigations on orbit, test effects of long duration space flights on men and the effect of high cost on the economical approach to the development of a basis for Skylab.
The Skylab is scheduled to go up in May 1973 for the first of three missions. Each mission will
have different crews.
MISSION ONE will last 2 days.
experiments (medical emphasis)
and then evaluate the 28-day habituation of the spacelab and the spacecraft.
There will be a two-month wait before the 56-day mission two begins. This time there will be an emphasis to the experiment.
There will then be a month before the 56-day mission three goes up. The resources impairments be coequainted with the complete Skylab program.
professor of Slavic languages and literatures.
Moore said he anticipated a change in the mission plans. Earth resources experiments might be conducted in mission mode of mission three, which is scheduled for the middle of winter.
"It is unusual to have all these combinations here at KU and to have such a well-rounded offering," Mikelson said.
The Skylab will be built in Philadelphia by General Electric.
The availability of such professors was one of the main reasons for the formation of a university, because they offered for the first time next fall.
The degree will be a master of arts in Russian Culture. This "novel inter-disciplinary option" offers students the opportunity to traditional M.A. in Russian Language and Literature and literature with an emphasis on Literature, Mikkelson said.
"THERE IS A latent demand to
Students will be able to make comparisons between different departments, Mikkelson said.
Mikkelson said that another reason for creating the new degree was an effort to make the language requirement more attractive by allowing students to use the language in a larger context.
"I THINK THAT a lot of students are a little tired of having everything in a degree tied up in one strict discipline," Mikkelsen said. "But this degree is very different to how my approach to a broad culture."
The degree is designed education for students to train persons to teach both the Russian language and surveys of Russian culture." Mikkelsen said. He also to students anticipating careers in government, business and academia.
broadened the approach in a foreign culture," Mikkelson said, "and as far as we know this program is not only such program in the world.
MIKELSON SAID that through a number of surveys and research they had learned that high enrollment increases would be beneficial to college level. Consequently, Mikkelson said, the program will offer students the opportunity to participate in an African community junior colleges.
Those who will be teaching required courses for the program and who are specialists in their area on Russian culture include Ivan Kuznetsov, TV-film; Richard DeGeorge, professor of philosophy; William Kuhik, professor of speech and drama; Jeanne Stump, art instructor; and Edward Williams, assistant professor of music history.
Mikkelsen said there were already two candidates for the governor, and the other did undergraduate work at Georgetown University and the University of Texas.
TO QUALIFY FOR admission
to the program, a student need not have majored in Russian. He must have a bachelor's degree in Russian or foreign university and must have completed the equivalent of 22 semester hours of Russian language courses as well as three semester hours of Russian history.
Requirements for the M.A. in Russian culture include nine semester hours in Russian literature, six hours of Russian culture, nine hours of Russian literature, three hours of Russian aesthetics (philosophy of art), and nine hours of Russian culture other than Russian literature. The last category may be selected from any one of five fields, which are Russian theatre and drama, Russian music, Russian art, Russian religion and Russian
Nothesis will be required, but a comprehensive written and oral examination will be given. Students in Kansas junior colleges must also complete three hours of educational psychology, three hours of junior college orientation, and three hours of methods of teaching Russian.
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